Archive for month: August, 2016

The Money Show is in it’s final week. You have until 3 September 2016 to visit The Money Show at NN with work by Beatrice Gibson (UK), Goldin+Senneby (Sweden) and Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas (Lithuania).

I work all night, I work all day, to pay the bills I have to pay
Ain’t it sad
And still there never seems to be a single penny left for me
That’s too bad
In my dreams I have a plan
If I got me a wealthy man
I wouldn’t have to work at all, I’d fool around and have a ball…

Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich man’s world
Money, money, money
Always sunny
In the rich man’s world
Aha-ahaaa
All the things I could do
If I had a little money
It’s a rich man’s world

A man like that is hard to find but I can’t get him off my mind
Ain’t it sad
And if he happens to be free I bet he wouldn’t fancy me
That’s too bad
So I must leave, I’ll have to go
To Las Vegas or Monaco
And win a fortune in a game, my life will never be the same…

Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich man’s world
Money, money, money
Always sunny
In the rich man’s world
Aha-ahaaa
All the things I could do
If I had a little money
It’s a rich man’s world

Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich man’s world
Money, money, money
Always sunny
In the rich man’s world
Aha-ahaaa
All the things I could do
If I had a little money
It’s a rich man’s world

Open Forum 2016 is a series of FREE events for practicing visual artists offering advice and support.

On Saturday 17 September 2016 artists will be given the option to discuss their work with either Domo Baal, Director of Domo Baal gallery or Matt Roberts from Matt Roberts Arts, a not-for-profit organisation founded in 2006 to create opportunities for artists in new locations and contexts.

Each session is 45 minutes and can also include advice on your practice or other professional ambitions. Spaces are limited and on a first come first served basis. To book a one-to- session please email [email protected] stating who you would like to talk to.

Dave Hilliard is in the Project Space using Instagram as an artwork in itself. His project, entitled Post studio practice in the studio, is in the Project Space until 20 August 2016. Dave writes about the work:

I began uploading my paintings to Instagram in 2013 and since then my work has evolved to use this social media platform as an artwork in itself. To make these images I combine stylised self-portraits, photographs from my life and things I find online, using a program called Paint.net, a free alternative to Photoshop. I like the idea that personal narratives can tell stories about wider culture, and that’s what I try and do in my work. In my mind these images exist somewhere in the intersection of personal and cultural mythologies. It’s me and it’s something more than me, it’s real and it’s something more than reality.

A lot of the photographs I use for backgrounds I took 6 or 7 years ago in Texas on a phone or digital camera and so these images contain a lot of symbols I associate with the lone star state, mainly stars and corporate logos. I think a great deal about what America represents, ideas about freedom, movement and about chasing some intangible sense of happiness. I live in England but I deliberately portray my online character as existing in some kind of American non-place, not anchored by geography or history, as I think that is how many people increasingly exist now. The masked character is a bringing to life of imagery from my previous paintings, which I took partly from ‘Online drinking communities’ in which masked men relate to each other by recording videos of themselves drinking beer.

I have recently been working with digital imagery partly because painting had become limited in how I was able to convey the sorts of things I wanted to. I think the algorithms which are partly responsible for how I find source material are akin to the free-flowing mix of chance and purpose one gets when painting. You watch one video, Youtube suggests another and before you know it you are immersed in obscure internet communities. These communities use new technology to facilitate elemental human needs for connection and belonging.

Signed, strictly limited edition (3-4 of each print) ‘Polaroid’ style digital prints of Instagram art for sale, £10 per print or £50 for complete set of 10.

If you are an artist and want to do something experimental, apply to use NN’s Project Space. You can find applications here.

The jewels were recovered by Hasan and a team of art specialists while on an expedition to the Greyfriars Bus Station demolition site in 2015. Beguiled by the aura of these miniature monoliths, the party were compelled to collect the finest examples from the mountain of debris before they were lost to the town.

The fruit of a multi-million pound investment and crafted by the creative force of dynamite, the Jewels of Greyfriars glimmer with Northampton’s tempestuous spirit. The rubble is exceptional in the way it reflects the character of the town itself. A place, which may be considered flawed and easily disregarded, yet possesses tremendous worth to those who seek it.

You can purchase a unique cultural artefact and invest in Northampton’s creative future. This ‘treasure from the mouth of hell’, an object of cultural importance to Northampton arts and culture, is a limited edition piece of contemporary art. All profits from the Jewels of Greyfriars will support NN Contemporary Art’s public exhibition, event and CPD programmes.

A Jewel of your own

This summer the void left by the Brutalist megastructure can be filled…

This week we have Changing Spaces by Louise Bird & James Sleight from 10–13 August 2016 in NN’s Project Space

Louise is embarking upon a personal research project using drawing to document, for example, a place, space or event. Louise will be working in an unfamiliar public space, bringing her drawing in to explore new techniques, dimensions and scale – engaging the public in the results through open studio and talks.

James is working with open source coding, prototyping, concepts of interaction, video and 3D paper illustration. During his time in the space, he will be developing a research project that uses screen vision and video synthesising within context. James is interested in prototyping these experimental approaches, interacting with the public through the work and in turn the public interacting with the project.

If you are an artist or group and want to try something experimental, apply to use NN’s Project Space. Information and to download and application pack here.

From 3–6 August 2016 Pertiwi will be using NN’s top floor Project Space for her work in progress under the title Into The Still.

Pertiwi will be exposing her work in the Project Space to bring to life some of the sketches that she has created, using new materials, revisiting old ones and looking into their properties and how they can be placed together to form new meanings and relationships.

If you are an artist or group and want to experiment then apply to use the NN Project Space. For details and an application form, click here.